Assessing reference evapotranspiration by the Hargreaves method in north-eastern Italy

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 140, Issue , 2014, Pages 20-25

  Berti, Antonio ^a   Tardivo, Gianmarco ^a   Chiaudani, Alessandro ^b   Rech, Francesco ^c   Borin, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^c Meteorological Service Environmental Prevention and Protection Agency of the Veneto Region   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calibration; Evapotranspiration; FAO Penman Monteith equation; Hargreaves equation

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; METEOROLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; FAO PENMAN MONTEITHS; FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATIONS; HARGREAVES EQUATIONS; HARGREAVES METHODS; HUMID CONDITIONS; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATIONS; REFERENCE EVAPOTRANSPIRATION;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PENMAN-MONTEITH EQUATION; RADIATION BALANCE;

ITALY; VENETO;

EID: 84898965923     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2014.03.015     Document Type: Article

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